Senior Controller

As Finance department, we are the central department where all ends meet. We collaborate closely with a multitude of stakeholders to provide visibility on actual performance, foster adherence to financial guidelines, drumbeat planning processes and transform inputs into future profitability to support decision making. In a team of 7, we administer all financial tasks that arise in an entire company, which allows you to work alongside a multitude of topics which are often shared among several finance teams. You are a great fit for us if you can work under limited supervision, want to be a mentor for less senior colleagues, can be the key controlling person and number one sparring partner for the Head of Finance, like to implement or improve financial processes and aspire to grow your career and financial acumen within an international organization.

While some of our processes are already state of the art (like Forecast & Budget consolidation or our Power BI Dashboards), we still need support in other areas to be among the winning teams within Wabtec. This role provides you with much space for personal & professional growth, creativity and the chance to display leadership, but all of it embedded into a friendly and helpful team full of ambitious Finance colleagues who will always be your fallback solution when things get busy.

In your new role you would:

• Be responsible for the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing process
• Drive the budgeting and forecasting process in close collaboration with your FP&A colleagues and the entire leadership team
• Determine hourly rates as basis for our sales colleagues to properly price our services and ensure a reasonable balance between competitiveness and cost absorption
• Further develop reporting and forecasting of variances related to standard costing (volume and price deviations) to uncover and optimize inefficiencies
• Act as sparring partner for project management controlling to evaluate project-based / Percentage-of-Completion (POC) accounting
• Get a lot of visibility through your participation in reviews with senior management (if desired - no must)
• Serve as a business partner to our operating departments like operations, engineering, project management or sales
• Collaborate with your accounting colleagues to give guidance on the booking of business transactions in our local ERP system (SAP) to further improve cost center controlling granularity
• Become comfortable with Wabtec’s financial policies and help us ensure always being compliant with SOX - regulations (Sarbanes Oxley Act)
• Be the main point of contact for our finance colleagues in China for the harmonization of our controlling landscape